A global outage of Microsoft services was started by a Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, the tech giant has revealed.
An error in Microsoft’s DDoS protection measures then amplified the impact of the attack rather than mitigating it, the firm admitted.
During this time customers reported issues with a range of Microsoft platforms, including Outlook, Azure and the video game Minecraft. Microsoft cloud systems Intune and Entura were also impacted.